Indian Kanoon- IPC Section 73 Solitary confinement

Provision

Whenever any person is convicted of an offence for which under this Code the Court has power to sentence him to rigorous imprisonment, the Court may, by its sentence, order that the offender shall be kept in solitary confinement for any portion or portions of the imprisonment to which he is sentenced, not exceeding three months in the whole, according to the following scale, that is to say—

-a time not exceeding one month if the term of imprisonment shall not exceed six months:

-a time not exceeding two months if the term of imprisonment shall exceed six months and [shall not exceed one] year:

-a time not exceeding three months if the term of imprisonment shall exceed one year.

Simply put

Whenever the person is imprisoned for an offence and the court under IPC is empowered to sentence the offender to rigorous imprisonment then the court in its judgment may pronounce that the offender should be kept in solitary confinement for any part or parts of the original punishment awarded but the sentence of solitary confinement must not exceed beyond three months in the whole (punishment for the offence + Solitary confinement) which means

That the solitary confinement must not exceed for more than one month if the term of imprisonment does not exceed beyond six months.

That the solitary confinement must not exceed beyond two months if the imprisonment does not exceed beyond six months and is less than a year.

That the solitary confinement shall not exceed beyond three months if the term of imprisonment is more than a year.

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In executing a sentence of solitary confinement, such confinement shall in no case exceed fourteen days at a time, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement of not less duration than such periods; and when the imprisonment awarded shall exceed three months, the solitary confinement shall not exceed seven days in any one month of the whole Imprisonment awarded, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement of not less duration than such periods.

Whoever, having been convicted,-
(a) by a Court in [India], of an offence punishable under Chapter XII or Chapter XVII of this Code with imprisonment of either description for a term of three years or upwards, shall be guilty of any offence punishable under either of those Chapters with like imprisonment for the like term, shall be subject for every such subsequent offence to [imprisonment for life] or to imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years.

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